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They are the people Hannah Arendt predicted would become fixtures of humanity’s future, living (or living dead) reproaches to hollow declarations of human rights.
His efforts to thwart Ukraine’s European future will continue, as will his efforts to hollow out our democracy and replace it with a Kremlin echo chamber, unless the world imposes such a high price for his imperial ambitions that the Russian people refuse to bear it.
Africa’s Free-Trade FutureLUSAKA – When African leaders launch the massive Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) on March 21, 2018, at a summit in Kigali, Rwanda, their top priority should be to avoid rolling out something that is either hollow or redundant.
In so doing, it has cast the US military as the villain – a move that could eventually hollow out American support for the alliance.
In that case, China’s claim to a peaceful rise would ring hollow.
Without a greater sense of pan-national European solidarity, European institutions will soon become hollow, and perhaps even cease to exist.
Claims that they lack the needed resources ring hollow, as trillions of dollars were found to bail out banks in the financial crisis.
The government, indeed, prefers to offer only hollow initiatives focused narrowly on the economy.
Without internationally agreed-upon mechanisms for designating and managing marine-protected areas in international waters, the commitments made in Nagoya will amount to little more than hollow promises.
But it was a hollow token.
The counter-argument from multilateral-focused economists like me rings hollow in this climate.
These charges need to be investigated if President Medvedev’s claims to want a society based on the rule of law are not to ring hollow.
The walls were covered in vapid quotations from the hollow speeches of “the master of the nation.”
After all, it was democracy – specifically, the pressure to maintain adequate support – that led the Modi government to hollow out the GST concept.
We do not have any illusions or high expectations, but a NATO that continues to expand without having the capabilities to meet the obligations to defend an enlarged treaty area runs the risk of becoming a hollow alliance.
True to that dictum, the excessive personalization of politics, the search for political hegemony, and the fragmentation of the opposition reflected in Latin America’s neo-caesarism have served to concentrate power in the executive and hollow out countervailing institutions, including intermediary bodies between the state and society.
Elections had become a hollow ritual, matters of public policy were not important campaign issues, and the opposition was divided, poorly funded, and unable to devise a strategy to cut the PDP juggernaut to size.
And when a country – especially a country like Ukraine, which aspires to European Union membership – fails to bring the killers to justice, its stated commitment to democracy and the rule of law rings hollow.
China’s answers to those questions are clear: it is no longer willing to risk financial and economic stability on the basis of Washington’s hollow promises and tarnished economic stewardship.
But the argument rings hollow, because it fails to explain why regulations were needed in the first place.
The political core of his regime had become hollow.
Attempts to revive the Oslo peace process – the “Road Map” and the Annapolis process – have similarly failed to achieve more than vacuous declarations and hollow photo opportunities.
Now Russianness itself seems to lack a secure foundation, for it is but a hollow shell of discarded state symbols.
At this point, the embryo is a hollow ball of about 100 cells, none of which can be identified as destined to become any particular part of any particular human being.
Given the magnitude of the Greek crisis, they will all ring hollow.
The international initiatives of past administrations have been replaced by empty slogans, hollow gestures, and, of course, “alternative facts.”
Indeed, Netanyahu’s call for peace will remain hollow so long as he continues to view the solution to Israel’s legitimate security concerns as requiring continuous occupation of sizable portions of the future Palestinian state.
Though our political institutions need a thorough overhaul, I am proud to say that, despite Rajapaksa’s best efforts to corrupt and hollow them out, our victory was made possible because the election commission and court workers adhered to the law.
With dysfunctional policies pointing to a further compression of saving in the years ahead, the myth of sound US fundamentals has never rung more hollow.
We should leave the creationists to their hollow convictions and happily embrace the uncertainties inherent in a truly empirical approach to understanding the world.
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